In one of my favorite books, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterwork “The Scarlet Letter,” the ostracized protagonist Hester Prynne declares to her ex-lover Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, “Let God punish! Thou...
The siren wailed, just close enough that it could be heard over the din of late afternoon traffic, last Friday in Mexico City. The driver of my car stopped in the middle of the road, as did every other...
